EDITOR – During lockdown in England I have been pursuing my online genealogical researches into my family.
One query took me to your website – the items on Betty Haughton at 100 and 102.
She was my aunt, and I used to exchange Christmas cards with her until she moved into a care home.
I understand she died a few years ago.
The attached photos are taken from my grandparents’ Golden Wedding book, 1953.
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Auntie Doris, the oldest child, organised a collection of family photos in a golden album – a solo photo of each of the six children plus one of the whole family and then individual ones of the grandchildren.
I am not sure who the two children are in the family photo for Auntie Betty.
I do remember being taken up to London by my parents to say goodbye to her just before she left for South Africa.
She had a baby in a carry-cot, but I think he died very young.I did see her and uncle Norman once more when they came on holiday to England and took a coach tour that stopped overnight in Cheltenham, which is where I live.
It must have been in the late 60s. I met up with them for a drink in the Plough Hotel.
I used to have Tommy Atkins’ email address, but I seem to have lost it.
The name Bedfordview was an amusing coincidence, since I was brought up in Bedford, England.
Peter Shortell.
